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...clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown them in the bathtub." But while the dolls effortlessly return to life, the people in the novel, like the three pigs in the twin's version of the classic children's tale, tend to "get boiled." Atwood's comic parallels, even when a little heavy-handed, are always a lot of fun. After all, it's only make believe...
...inparticular is merely a rehash of the innocent,boymen Williams played without success in "Hook"and "Toys." "Mrs. Doubtfire" provides some bellylaughs but fails to carry through on the seriousmessage about family and divorce it seeks toproject in its latter scenes. Luckily, theseattempts do not inhibit the movie's comic moments,and Williams' mastery carries through despite theemotional baggage imposed...
...smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland...
...life," he confides, suddenly as gooey as a Gummi Bear. Then he recovers and in a flash works up the good-natured energy he displays on his sitcom. "But I still love the ladies. Martin loves the ladies!" He's too busy to be too serious. He's a comic on the laugh track to stardom...
Glittering on the horizon are Carousel, in a staging that is already a hit in London, and Damn Yankees, now a smash at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Both concern the collision of the supernatural and the everyday, the former with tragic dimensions and the latter with bawdily comic ones. Carousel has been reimagined in its physical production; Yankees, full of passe baseball references and bygone mores between men and women, has undergone a revamping of its book. Both have the potential to make the best possible case for revivals: they are far better than anything new that...